We resisted the temptation to divide the Bible and Shakespeare into various sections when others were claiming AEsop's Fables each as an individual eBook to pad their bibiographies. However, when people started requesting individual Shakespeare plays and books of the Bible for research purposes, we did as they asked, which we nearly always try to do for our readers. I'm sure some people would also try to prevent paper publishers and libraries from publishing individual Shakespeare plays or books of the Bible. BTW, I think we put all the shortest books in one file, at last that was my intention. However, when someone donates a Shakespeare or Bible in their own particular favorite format and breakdown, that's totally up to them, and I'm not about to fight with them about it. . . . If someone wants a verse by verse eBible, I think we should zip it all in one huge file, but still let it unzip in the manner they prefer. mh On Fri, 4 Mar 2005, Greg Newby wrote:
On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 09:09:59PM +0100, Marcello Perathoner wrote:
Brandon Galbraith wrote:
I suppose while these updates are going on, we should also update 13,000 to 15,000 in the opening:
It's too bad we can't make that dynamic, feeding off of a database =)
Not worth the trouble ... First, we had to agree on what counts as an ebook in its own right.
Eg. we have a Bible in the collection, where every chapter got its own ebook number. Also, many books are posted in parts, and every part got its own number besides the complete book.
To get a meaningful count of ebooks we first had to get rid of such shameless stuffings.
That's an unwarranted poke, Marcello.
We do have a count, and it's eBook #s as used as the primary access point to our files.
Agreeing on what counts as an eBook is not necessary. We know how many eBook #s we have, even if there is disagreement on what counts as an eBook. There are plenty of words (in GUTINDEX.ALL and elsewhere) to augment this simplistic number. -- Greg
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